Felt workshop for busy mums
Tutor: Gill Dearman
For mums who don't have the time to fit in a full days workshop we now offer an introduction to Felt making for mums. Have a creative and fun day learning a beautiful craft and still be in time to collect kids from school! And we also serve you a delicious lunch!
Wednesday 25th April 2012
10am - 2.30pm (3pm latest)
Price £42.50, includes lunch, refreshments & basic materials
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Luxury Nuno silk scarf
Tutor: Jenny Pepper
Spend the day creating a unique Nuno scarf by combining luxury fibres with beautifully soft silk fabric. You will learn how to apply wool and silk to create a delicately soft surface texture and pattern. Nuno is the name given to a feltmaking technique that combines fabric with wool. The technique enables you to create very detailed pattern on a background surface of silk.
Saturday 12th May 2012
10am - 4pm
Price £67.50, includes lunch, refreshments & basic materials
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3-lesson Felt class
Tutor: Gill Dearman
Felt is probably one of the oldest known textiles. Its uses are both tradional and contemporary. The use of felt is as wide as the creative user wants it to be. Felted pieces can stand alone as art pieces or as fashion wear eg felt bags, felt slippers, or interior design pieces eg felt cushios, felt cen be used in conjunction with fabrics eg scarves. Felt also makes a wonderful surface to stitch into for the embroiderer.
We will be looking into the process of making hand rolled flat felt in these sessions, for althought water, heat soap and friction are all that is needed to make felt, understanding each process enables you to have control over the results. In these sessions we will look at making various thicknesses of felt from very thick to very fine cob-web felt, and how the combining of other fibres, yarns and fabrics with the felt will change the finished appearance and texture of the piece of felt. By sampling these techniques you can decide which types of technique you wish to pursue for a finished item.
All sessions are suitable for the beginner through to the experienced enthusiast; each student will work at their own individual pace.
Wednesday 13th, 20th & 27th June 2012, 10am - 1pm
Price £90, includes refreshments and basic materials
Materials can also be bought during workshop.
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Hollow Seamless Vessels
Tutor: Jenny Pepper
In this workshop you will learn how to make a seamless felt vessel or vaseusing a feltmaking technique known as the resist method. There are endless
possibilities once you have learned this method. Choose to make two smaller vessels of different shapes or one larger vessel. There will be a selection of fibres available to experiment with surface texture and pattern on your vessel. Choose to make your felt with coloured Merino wool or natural wools.
Saturday 7th July 2012
10am - 4pm
Price £60, includes lunch, refreshments & basic materials
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All in one Handbag
Tutor: Jenny Pepper
Spend a day creating a beautiful and functional felt bag. This is an
interesting resist method that allows you to make a bag seamlessly including handles. No need to make separate handles and attach them, this is an all -in - one method.
Learn how to make pre felts to cut and apply as surface pattern.
There will also be an interesting selection of other fibres to add surface texture and pattern.
Saturday 29th September 2012
10am - 4pm
Price £60, includes lunch, refreshments & basic materials
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